OpenID User Experiences found in the wild

[Chris Messina]

Awesome!

Yeah, so here's a pretty interesting use case -- which I think we need
to address... stringing one OpenID to another... to another... to
another... and communicating which OpenID sites are consumers vs
providers -- which is lame, since they all should really go both ways.

Consider this: I added OpenID to my WordPress blog (temporarily). I
logged in using claimid.com/factoryjoe. That was successful and
everything worked like it should. I went to my profile and I was able
to add other OpenID accounts to consolidate my identity... oo, neat!

So I decided to add factoryjoe.livejournal.com... I was taken to
LiveJournal where I first logged in normally (not with OpenID) and
that got me nowhere... So I logged out of LJ, and logged back in w/
OpenID -- which created a *new* account on LJ based on my ClaimID
account... soooooo.... now I have *two* accounts that I apparently
can't transfer back to my WordPress blog because it turns out
LiveJournal doesn't allow for remote authentication.

Jeez, woulda been nice to know that first, eh?

Anyway, that kind of killed it for me.

Oh, and the username created on the WordPress blog was less than ideal
(not simply Alans fault) since there are no standards on how to create
GUID-like, URL-based "same names" for databases.

Anyway, just a couple observations and experiences.

Chris

On 11/2/06, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
> I started a page to collect what OpenID relying party implementers
> actually do today in terms of user experience.
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> http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/User_Experience_In_The_Wild
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> It's very rudimentary. Please add to it!!
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> Cheers,
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> Johannes.
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> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
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>   http://netmesh.info/jernst
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